Fruitful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
     Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
     prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
     or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- {Fruit"ful*ly}, adv.
     -- {Fruit"ful*ness}, n.
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           Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
                                                    --Gen. i. 28.
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           [Nature] By disburdening grows
           More fruitful.                           --Milton.
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           The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
  
     Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
          abundant; plenteous. See {Fertile}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fruitful
       adj 1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be
              fruitful and multiply" [ant: {unfruitful}]
       2: productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful
          meeting" [syn: {profitable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "fruitful":
     abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, bounteous, bountiful,
     bursting, bursting out, copious, creative, effective, exuberant,
     fecund, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, fructuous, generous,
     lush, luxuriant, luxurious, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant,
     productive, profitable, proliferous, prolific, rewarding, rich,
     seminal, successful, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving,
     uberous, useful, well-spent, worthwhile